Leveraging the Power of Mentorship - How Peer to Peer Mentoring Can Accelerate Your Success
The benefits of mentoring are powerful and well-established. Research shows that quality mentoring relationships have significant effects on the enhancement of the peer’s educational, personal and professional situation.
There are six major ways you can benefit from leveraging the power of peer to peer mentorship.
1. Gaining Valuable Advice
Mentors can offer valuable insight by learning from their personal and professional experience. They can be your guide and "sounding board" for ideas and strategies, helping you decide on the best direction on your journey to success. You may learn ways that help you work more effectively and avoid learning mistakes the hard way.
2. Developing Your Knowledge and Skills
Trusted Mentors should get real with you. They can help you identify the skills and expertise you need to succeed by helping you evaluate your strengths and opportunities for growth. They may teach you what you need to know, or advise you on where to go for the information you need to grow.
3. Improve Your Communication Skills
Working together in this interpersonal relationship will help you learn to communicate more effectively, which can positively influence your ability as a leader . Learning specifically how to give and receive valuable feedback allows both partners to make valuable changes.
4. Learn New Perspectives
You can learn new ways of thinking and looking at things which can inspire you to make a quantum leap! Step out of the box of your everyday thinking and old habits that are holding you back. This can also give you a great opportunity for self inquiry and exploring your true purpose and vision of success.
5. Build Your Network/Expand your Positive Circle
You are the average of the Five people you spend the most time with! You are also influenced by your core five’s friends and their friends. Your mentor can offer an opportunity to expand your existing network of positive and quality personal and professional contacts and open doors of opportunity for advancement. Your network is your networth.
6. Advance Your Career
A mentor helps you stay focused and on track with your short and long term goals in every area of your life through mentoring action plans, accountability logs, skill development, and building an authentic mentoring relationship where you both are genuinely interested in supporting each other’s vision of health, happiness and success.